Tag: Medicine

Healthful Diet that can Sustain your Lifespan
A healthful diet is the cornerstone of good health and well-being. It includes a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables, which provide essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Incorporating whole grains and starches, like brown rice, quinoa, and oats, ensures a steady source of energy and fiber for digestive health. Good fats, such as those found in avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil, play a crucial role in supporting heart health and reducing inflammation. Proteins, whether plant-based like beans and lentils or animal-based like lean meats and fish, are vital for muscle repair and overall body function.

Eating healthfully also involves being mindful of what to avoid. Reducing or eliminating foods high in added salt and sugar is essential for maintaining optimal health. Excess salt can lead to high blood pressure and other cardiovascular issues, while too much sugar is linked to weight gain, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. Here’s how adopting a healthful diet can transform your overall health and well-being.

1. Reduced cancer risk

An unhealthful diet can lead to obesity which may increase a person’s risk of developing cancer. Weighing within a healthful range may reduce this risk.

However, diets rich in fruits and vegetables may help to protect against cancer and lowered the risk of colorectal cancer.

Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes act as antioxidants, which protect cells from damage that can cause cancer

2. Diabetes control

Eating a healthful diet can help a person with diabetes to keep blood pressure and cholesterol within target ranges.

Prevent or delay complications of diabetes. People with diabetes need to limit their intake of foods with added sugar and salt. It is also best to avoid fried foods high in saturated fats.

3. Healthy Heart

Consumptions of healthy nuts such as almonds or walnuts, avocados, berries, whole grains and leafy green vegetables, Prevent blood clots which can lead to heart attacks.

Intake of the above can help lower the risk of heart disease and stroke. You also eat less food with added sugar, calories and unhealthy fats.

4. Strong bones and teeth

A diet with adequate calcium and magnesium is necessary for strong bones and teeth.

Good source of calcium includes:
- Milk,
  cheese and other dairy foods
- Tofu
- Soya beans
Good source of Magnesium includes:
- leafy
  green vegetables
- nuts
- and whole grains
5. Better mood

While a healthful diet may improve overall mood, it is essential for people with depression to take foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, green vegetables, oily fish, dark chocolate, whole grains and water.

6. Boost Brains and Memory

A healthful diet helps to boost brains and memory and help to prevent cognitive decline.

The foods can help to boost the brains and memory:
- Fatty
  fish
- Blueberries
- Turmeric
- Nuts
  and so many others.
January 10, 2019
Darwin Life Aims to Impregnate 40 and Above Women with Designer Babies

Darwin Life is a new fertility clinic that aims to get women over the age of 40 pregnant with ‘perfect babies’. The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks infertility as the third most serious health condition in the world, after cancer and heart disease. A Chinese founder and researcher Dr. John Zhang is developing controversial methods of fertility that involves replacing some of the chromosomes in a patient’s eggs with those of a younger woman’s.

Dr. John Zhang first made headlines in September 2016 when he successfully produced the world’s first three-parent baby using the spindle transfer technique.

The treatment is called ‘spindle nuclear transfer’, often referred to as a three-parent-baby technique, and it is outlawed in the United States. It’s been refused for FDA approval because it involves what some view as gene manipulation.

Doctor Zang’s work helped a woman with a rare disease called Leigh Syndrome become pregnant last year. The idea was that with the help of a donor’s chromosomes that the baby would protected against inheriting its mother’s disease, while still remaining genetically related to her.

Zang reported mixed results; the baby was born healthy but damaged DNA from the mother was unintentionally transferred over thus creating a possibility for health problems in the future for the child.

The alternative is standard in-vitro fertilization (IVF) where the entire egg is harvested from the donor and placed inside the mother – thus the baby is genetically related to the donor, even though the mother gives birth.

In this case the chromosomes were harvested in the United States, but the actual application and implanting occurred in Mexico due to US restrictions and ethical concerns. America isn’t the only country concerned about the ethics; the UK allows the procedure, but only in cases where normal conception or IVF might put the baby at high risk for health issues.

Doctor Zang wants to do more than use his method to eliminate hereditary diseases. He wants to impregnate women ages 42 through 47 who often can’t get pregnant even though they produce eggs.

The startup also aims to blow the ‘playing God’ conversation wide-open. The Doctor told Technology Review:

Everything we do is a step toward designer babies, with nuclear transfer and gene editing together, you can really do anything you want.

He’s referring to the ability for parents to choose a child’s eye color or decide if their child will be tall or not. It’s a minefield of ethics concerns – is it okay to edit genes to lower the risk of cancer? What about to increase your baby’s I.Q.?

What happens when intelligence becomes the territory of the wealthy? This is another example of the twisting complexity of the world we live in. Perfect people are on the way and I don’t think any of us are ready for that.

June 14, 2017